"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drum." -Henry David Thoreau

VERY IMPORTANT!!: If you have read 'The Forgotton Among Us', please go back and read it again, because I've re-made the chapters. I'm soooo sorry if this is too much to ask, but it's only 2 chapters, so it shouldn't be too hard.

Random Questions:

-How do Japanese people have spelling bee's if their language consists of words, not letters?

-Why is Uranus called 'Ur-Anus'?

Character Profiles:

-Shi Kenshiin
Meaning of Name: Shi-Death, Kenshiin-Sword Heart
Age: Normal-20 Immortal-143
Appearance: 5'10", golden eyes, metallic dark silver hair (Think pencil lead), silver beads in hair, left side of mouth stitched shut
Clothes: black skin-tight shin-length shorts, dark gray baggy shorts over them, long-bell-sleeved black shirt with v-neck, Akatsuki cloak.
Likes: Gambling, noise, fighting, music, storms, lightning, swords, traveling
Dislikes: Hidan, Deidara, artists, weaklings, the color white, silence
Personality: Grudge-holding, menacing, cold-hearted, sarcastic
Chakra type: Fire
Village: Village Hidden In the Steam
Name (according to Raidon): Speed Hunter
Akatsuki Ring Symbol: 'Sora' (Sky)
Weapon: Bolo, smeared with tar, and lit on fire
Abilities: super speed running, can place and remove memories from peoples' minds.
Past: You'll see...
Theme Song: 'Dance With The Devil' by Breaking Benjamin; 'Animal I Have Became' by 3 Days Grace

-Raidon
Meaning of Name: Thunder god
Age: 23
Appearance: 5'11", black eyes, light green hair, black bandana, left side of body is made of metal
Clothes: black ninja pants, net tanktop, Akatsuki cloak
Personality: Distant, spacey, mental, quiet
Chakra Type: Metal
Village: Village Hidden In the Mine
Name (according to Raidon): Iron Seer
Akatsuki Ring Symbol: Ground
Weapon: double blades, each 4 feet tall and 1 foot wide, like oversized machetes, with 'Innocence' written on one, and 'Mercy' written on the other in red.
Abilities: controls metal, can see into the future.
Theme Song: 'Speed of Sound' by Linkin Park

And Last but Not Least, ME!!

-Ground Zero43
Meaning of name: Ground Zero-the point on the earth's surface where an explosion occurs,point on the ground directly below an explosion. Often used with nuclear bombs, but also with earthquakes, epidemics, and other disasters, and also used with the site in New York where the World Trade Centers were attacked on September 11th, 2001. 43- My jersey number on my teams for the past 2 years.
Nicknames: Zero, Ground Zero, Jyncx, Zero the Hero
Age: Above 10 but below 20.
Appearance: 5'9 1/2", green eyes, upper back length light brown hair, glasses
Clothes: At the moment, knee length jean shorts, long dark blue tanktop, and flipflops.
Personality: You know, I don't really know myself. I like reading, but I will fight if I have to. People call me tough, but I can be nice when around friends.
Loves: In order- GOD, Country (Woohoo!! Go America!!), Others, Self.
Likes: Football, basketball, baseball, volleyball, Nascar, thunder, rain, popcorn, twizzlers, cherries, bubblegum, carrots, Coca-Cola, comedy and/or adventure movies, rollercoasters, s'mores, camping, stargazing, horses, dogs, honest hard-working people, chocolate, beef jerky, BBQ, lemonade, brunswick stew, ice cream, mom's cooking, 'Smear the Buccaneer', music...
Dislikes: People who don't earn what they get, French people (No offense, frenchies! Just a personal experience, because, when my best friend, Claudi, took a trip to France, she wasn't treated very well... Let's just leave it at that...), seafood, Soap Operas, taxidermy, rich snobby people who don't actually work, my brother
Weapon: Louisville Slugger. Grandslam!! (kills robber)
Past: I live a good life, thank you very much!!
Theme Song: 'Gunpowder and Lead' by Miranda Lambert

Quotes!!: Are Awesome. I Luv Them.

-Friend's Quotes:

"Boy, I will destroy you." - My math teacher

"What in the hee-haw are y'all doin'?!" -Again, my math teacher

"Your epidermis is showing." -Naomi

"One llama, Two llamas..." -Madelyn

Real Quotes:

"The story's about you." -Horace

"I came, I saw, I conquered." -Julius Caesar

"GOD must be a lover of the common people, or He would not have made so many of them." -Abraham Lincoln

"'Tis better to walk alone than in bad company." -George Washington

"When all our hopes are gone, 'tis well our hands must still keep toiling on for other's sake." -Anonymous

"The red coats do look best, but it takes the ragged boys to do the fighting." -George Washington

"The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night." -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering." -Theodore Roosevelt

"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself." -Francis Marion Crawford

"He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin." -Horace

"Like the cover of an old book,
Its contents torn out,
And stripped of its lettering and gilding,
Lies here food for worms;
But the work shall not be lost,
For it will (as he believes) appear once more
In a new and more elegant edition,
Revised and corrected by the author." -Benjamin Franklin

"To be awake is to be alive." -Henry David Thoreau

"I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be." -Abraham Lincoln

"The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions." -Confucius

"Now or never was the time." -Laurence Sterne

"Happy the man, and happy he alone,
Who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
"Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today." -John Dryden

"I go through my appointed daily stage, and I care not for the curs who bark at me along the road." -Frederick the Great

"A man's work is from sun to sun, but a mother's work is never done." -Anonymous

"Thus conscience does make cowards of us all." -William Shakespeare

"Goodness is the only investment that never fails." -Henry David Thoreau

"I am standing upon the seashore. A ship
at my side spreads her white sails to the
morning breeze and starts for the blue
ocean... I stand and watch her until at length
she hangs like a speck of white cloud come
down to mingle with each other. Then
someone at my side says, "There! She's gone!"

Gone where? Gone from my sight... that is
all. She is just as large in mast and hull
and spar as she was when she left my side...
Her diminished size is in me, not in her.
And just at the moment when someone at my
side says "There! She's gone!"-there
are other eyes watching her coming, and other
voices ready to take up the glad shout, "There
she comes!"
And that is dying." -Anonymous

"For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories." -Plato

"We are tattooed in our cradle by the beliefs of our tribe." -Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Men's greatest successes come after their disappointments." -Henry Ward Beecher

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you do not stand up to live." -Henry David Thoreau

"Clear your mind of can't." -Samuel Johnson

Of the Moments:

-Joke of the moment: 'How do you know you live in Georgia? When all directions start with "Go down Peachtree..." and include the phrase "When you see the Waffle House..."' -Found in Reader's Digest, January 2009 issue.

-Inside Joke of the Moment: "Naomi, are you high?" "Yes, I am. High as the sky. Nebula!"

-Book of the Moment: 'All You've Got' by Karol Ann Hoeffner. My fave character is Gabbie.

-Song of the Moment: 'One of the Boys' by Gretchen Wilson.

-Author of the Moment: Riz-I. Best EVER. Go read her fanfics. Now!